The creative ideas for my paintings and collages come to me randomly. Sometimes I may think of colors I want to use or materials and the creative process starts from there. I thought for this collage I would like to use black and blue. I really had no idea of which materials I would use until I had prepared the gallery board with several coats of black and blue paint. At this point, I thought that I would like the materials to be primarily be black and blue tissue paper, aluminum foil, tracing paper and printed pages from a magazine. I then decided that I would like to use phone book pages instead because of the small print, numbers, texture of the paper and minimal color. I really had not idea of the subject or theme for this collage until I started studying the materials. Often the search for the correct materials can take awhile, but the more I explore the materials I have accumulated, I begin to form my ideas for the artwork.
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